Make Your Telemarketer's Day...by Dyana Daniels

The phone rang as I was sitting down to my evening meal. When I answered it, I was greeted with "Is this James Silhavy?" Not sounding anything like my name, I asked who is calling. The telemarketer said he was with The Rubber Band Powered Freezer Company or something like that. Then I asked him if he knew James personally and why was he calling this number.

I said off to the side (holding the phone slightly away), "Get some pictures of the body at various angles and the blood smears". I then turned back to the phone and advised the caller that he had entered a murder scene and must stay on the line because we had already traced this call and he would be receiving a summons to testify in this murder case.

I questioned the caller at great length as to his name, address, phone number at home, at work, who he worked for, how he knew the dead guy and could he prove where he had been about one hour before he made this call.

The telemarketer was getting very concerned and his answers were in a shaky voice. I then told him we had located his position and the police were entering the building to take him into custody. At that point I heard the phone fall and the scurrying footsteps of him running away.

My wife asked me as I returned to our table why I had tears streaming down my face and so help me, I couldn't tell her for about fifteen minutes. My meal was cold, but it was the best meal in a long, long time.

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A Lot to Like About the Little Guy..................By Jeff Hoyt

“So, what have you voiced that I would recognize?”

People ask me that all the time. It’s the first go-to question asked of any voiceover actor. And there’s a natural tendency to want to impress with the answer.....More

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The Funnies

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Producer's Corner.
Production Facility - Buyer Beware!

The internet is a great resource for both business and information, but you have to be particularly careful in doing business on the web -- there are many scammers, who would like nothing better than to trick more people out of their money.

This is of particular concern in the field of audio production - specifically mastering.
Mastering is an important step in the final stages of production - it's the "spit and polish" phase where your material (voice or music) comes out clean and glossy. Unfortunately, it's also a very misunderstood aspect of production that few people are familiar with - making them easy targets for deceptive practices.

The mastering engineer I deal with most often just outside of Chicago (John Scrip of Massive Mastering {LINK: http://www.massivemastering.com}), wrote an excellent article on some of the issues and things to watch out for -- BUYER BEWARE. {LINK: http://www.massivemastering.com/html/buyer_beware.html}

Happy Recording!

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Email is supposed to be a time saver, but for many of us the shear volume of message we receive each day has turned the management of our email into a big job. On top of that, if something happens to our saved emails we often lose valuable/important information. To that end, I would like to point out a few good articles that can help you take control of your email.

4 Ways to Take Control of Your E-mail Inbox
http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/manageinfo/email.mspx
In this article, Microsoft covers 4 key factors to effectively process your email.

Spam Blocking
Current studies have shown that spam may account for as much as 90% of all email traffic. Almost all ISPs offer spam blocking software as part of their email packages. In most cases the feature is disabled or set to a very low setting. I would highly recommend you contact your ISP and discuss with them how best to setup/configure spam blocking. For those of you who's ISP do not provide spam blocking, there is a good overview of several free/cheap solutions at http://netsecurity.about.com/od/emailspamblocking/a/aafreespam.htm.

Backing up Your Email
The following list of articles describe how to backup/restore email for various email clients.

Outlook Express - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270670
Outlook - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=287070
Eudora - http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/1602hq.html
Thunderbird - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Backing_Up_and_Restoring
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